The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-12

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FLORIDA.
Every county In the State which has yet
voted has gone dry. .e
| The Anthony temperance barbecue has
been indefinitely postponed
The cotton crop Of Columbia county will
average about three-fourths of the yield
1 last year,
Oxford young men talk of organizing a
| military company with Capt. D. j. Wright
! to drill them
F. ID. Grover has made application for a
charter and will soon open a regular bank
| ing business at Orange City.
Lake City ships 700 pounds of hides every
week. The citizens are, therefore, quite
anxious to have tannery established.
Rev Mr. Stoney is expected at Orange
City soon with his family to take charge of
the dormitory of the Methodist College.
One of the sailors on the Swedish bark
Belted Win, at the quarantine station, oft
Pensacola, is reported to have gone crazy
Work on the iettieS at the entrance to
Cumberland Sound will cease in a short
time, the appropriation for that purpose
being about exhausted.
A white man named Richard McCanathy,
who about ten days ago appropriated lot
of furniture at Ocala, for which he failed to
pay, and afterward left for parts unknown,
was arres ted at Jacksonville Friday.
To know the East Florida Seminary bar
racks of old, at Gainesville, is not to know
them to-day Some 81, 900 has been laid
out in remodeling, adding to, painting and
repairing, in judicious and workmanlike
manner.
1t was stated at Palatka Friday by Col.
Carter, the engineer in charge of the con-
structton of the bridge, that work would
positively commence on Monday next, and
that the bridge would cross at Rolleston,
unless orders were received in the meantime
suspend operations.
At the stockholders meeting of the
Gainesville Base Ball Association Thursday
night, a constitution and bylaws were
adopted, and the following officers elected
for the balance of the year: w. G. Robin
son, President; A NJ Cushman, Secretary
and Treasurer; b. G. Drake, Fathey P. j.
Lynch and A. J. Macarthur, Directors,
DR.. Perine and family, of Ocala have re-
turned from the mountains of Georgia
The doctor had quite an experience in his re-
turn trip, meeting with a serious railroad
smash up. He came by freight, bringing
his horse and buggy with him. The train
ran off the track near Newnansville, wreck
ing five cars, one of which he occupied, but
strange to say, thrown around as he and
his horse were, received no serious injury,
but a fearful shaking up.
The scalding of the colored man. Sam Frier
at Cashen's mill, Jacksonville, Thursday,
had a very sad sequel. Frier's wife was in
a delicate condition, and the news of the
frightful catastrophe proved too much for
her, and she was put to bed in a half-con-
scious condition. About $50 o'clock, very
nearly the time of her husbands death, she
gave birth to two still-born infants. These
were inferred with the father. The woman
is now lying in a critical condition, and her
chances OF recovery are very slight.
The County Commissioners of Suwannee,
at their meeting last Monday, made the fol-
lowing assessment of taxes for county pur-
poses for the year 1887: General revenue,
3 mills on the dollar; county school 3; r. r.
special, u; total, So. The State assessment
is as follows: General revenue, BIZ mills on
the dollar; general school, l mill on the
dollar; total, Az mills ON the dollar, making
a total of both State and county of 10 mills
on the dollar. The poll tax of 81 goes into
the county school fund.
There are two veterans of the Mexican
war living near Oxford who claim that
honorable distinction. Peter Perry and
Benjamin Seals, two venerable citizens,
carry marks which commemorate the
sanguinary struggle Uncle Peter was
with the main army, and tells in
teresting narratives Of Vera Cruz,
Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo the City
of Mexico and the storming of Chapultupec,
and recalls with no less vividness the char
acters of Maj. Ringgold, Winfield Scott and
Gems. Shields, Grant, and even the dashing
Santa Anna himself, who Objectionable as
he was in the eyes of our government, pos
seSsed some remarkable traits of character.
They are both applicants for pensions under
the new law.
The County Commissioners had their
monthly meeting at Eustis Thursday They
decided that deputy registering officers
| must be appointed for each precinct in the
county, and it gives universal satisfaction.
The Supervisor of Registration for the
county had decided that for this special
| county seat election he had no authority to
appoint deputies in the different precincts.
This alarmed the people, as 1t practically
disfranchised a great many. But it is hap
| PLY settled by the commissioners deciding
| they have the power to order these appoint
| ments under the special act creating Lake
county. The gentlemen who were first rec
| commended to the County Supervisor will
| now be appointed, and their books and in
structions sent in few days.
A short time ago gentleman from Maine,
who was travelling through the State stop
| ped at New Smyrna few days, and, while
| there, was introduced to R. S. Nelson, real
estate dealer. Mr.. Nelson for a wonder,
was not very busy, and, with his usual
kindness to strangers, he offered to get his
horse and buggy and take the man from
Maine out to see the country. His offer
was met with the following civil reply
"No, sir; don't want to see any Florida
real estate. don't want to buy any Flori-
da land. II owned Florida and hades,
and had TO live in ono and sell the other, |
would trade off Florida, and dwell in sheol "
Il don't doubt it, SIR said Mr.. Nelson.
| You would find congenial society in
sheol." The man from Maine subsidized.
Cleveland g. Son, of Jacksonville, are
having printed 10, 900 copies of descriptive
pamphlet which they are to distribute
throughout the State and through the
southern part of Georgia. In order to OBJ
tain names of reliable parties they sent to
every postofilce in the State circular, Of
fering for every twenty-five names a chance
in drawing for twenty prizes, amounting
in value to about $500. Many responses
were received from the postmasters, and the
drawing to decide who should have prizes
was held Friday night with, the following re-
suit: The first prize, patent upholstered
rocker, was drawn by the postmaster at
| Melbourne, on ticket No IL; the second
prize, patent cane seat rocker, was drawn
| by the postmaster at Cone, Fla, ON ticket
| No. SIS; the third a carpet rocker, by the
postmaster at Lake Howell, on ticket No.